There are thirty-one types of happiness, and this article offers one type of happiness for each day and a little commentary on how to give your life and marriage a happiness boost!
You may have recently heard that the Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) each year, recently announced the new batch of 2,000 words that have been added to its current edition.
Adversity is something everyone experiences. Currently, our entire country is feeling some sort of adversity. Everyone either knows of someone, or are themselves, in financial difficulties. Like some sort of Snidely Whiplash, the economy is robbing us of everything including our homes. People are edgy, nasty and cannot see beyond their own need. We are like lions on a carcass growling at anyone who may appear on the horizon. We are no longer friendly because being nice is weakness and right now the only thing that is taught on the streets is ‘The Eye of the Tiger’.
Attachment is the ‘it theory’ of parenting right now. As defined in the psychological sense, attachment theory says that a child must develop a psychological and emotional attachment to one of their primary caregivers to develop normally. Therapists have seen that people who fail to form attachments while infants are predisposed to mental illness starting as young as early adolescence. However, as with most forms of parenting theory, there is little in the way of experimentation or studies proving the efficacy of Attachment Parenting.
Now that I have a family I am hardly ever alone. Come to think of it I was never alone before I had a family and now I find that I am not very good at it. This post is about the weekend my family was away and I got to practice being alone and being good with it.
Summers of my youth meant spending almost a month with my Grandparents. Midland was my summer home. Grandmother planned adventures for everyday. There were cooking lessons with her. Baking lessons with her sister, Aunt Irma. Trips to see movies and visit the water park with my Aunt. Every year she had some new adventure or project. Her
Barefoot Books are giving away one Apple iPad 16GB. Entry is by signing up (for free) as an Ambassador with them, although no purchase or spend is necessary. This post applies to UK and Europe only.
I'm also giving away a prize to one person who reposts/publishes the blog post - entry for this is by posting on the blog with details of where the you have posted.
Relationships are always tough, and things don't get any easier as time goes on. You don't get any better at it just because you've been on the job longer. With most long-term relationships, there are going to be periods of ennui or boredom along the way. There are going to be fun times, rough times, fights or confrontations, laughter, tears, changes both good and bad, ups and downs, ins and outs and much more that will impact your relationship in a positive way or negative way. We all love the feeling of falling in love, the freshness of a new relationship growing a
Sourdough is fun to do, and once you get the knack, it is not time consuming to make, you just have to get used to the process. I have been wanting to do this post for over a year...but I am just now getting around to doing it. You will understand if you start reading...as there is so much information, which has taken me trial and error to perfect, and reading this and that, then reading more, and reading even more. My hope is to pack a lot of information here that you will just need once place to gather all that you will need to know to make this process go smoothly.
A post about the hope and excitement around the end of Summer and the beginning of fall. Maybe it is the start of school and those left over feelings of possibility, or maybe it is something else but I find myself more likely to be making resolutions and plans fro the future in the beginning of the Fall than I do during New Years
I like how moments that can seem harried and terrible at the time - in retrospect, can seem so perfect and pure (remember late night feedings with babies - the ballet recital or Christmas pageant during which the camera broke and your kid didn't sing or smile the whole time? Priceless, right?). So... in that vein - that non-cliched, "here's an unusual / direct way to tell a story or make a point" way, I have posted some bittersweet snippets of my life - dinner alone with my little ones - not a true adult conversation in sight - for days sometimes!
Sherry (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a theif and drug addict. She spent the last three years away from her young daughter and wants her back. Sherry soon realizes this will be the hardest thing she eve had to do. SherryBaby is a poignant film about life's intimate tragedies and the terrible struggle to overcome them.
I love recipes and love the traditions in my family and I would like you to share your traditions and recipes. Share special memories of holidays and special memories. Especially good are meal time only events such as sharing stories, taking pictures and other things that make your recipe reflect back to days gone by or making new memories.
I Will Carry You is a message of encouragement to parents with young children. It lets them know that while they carry their children and raise them to love the Lord, God is carrying them. It reminds them that the time they spend nurturing their chiildren has eternal value.
A post about being a stay at home dad and a masculine man at the same time. There is a thought that the type of man that would choose to be at home with the kids is in some way effeminate and that is not true. I am not the boys mother and I don't parent the way their mother does. I am their father and I love being home with them.
I majored in Art in college… I know right ? What are you going to do with that ? Well create a blog obviously. My husband also majored in Art…. we use our art background to nurture our daughters artistic talents and not let ‘life’ get in the way like it did with our art dreams.
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f you are looking to help your child understand life look towards puzzles. You can still have fun and throw some educational experience in with a twist! Puzzles help build a foundation for skills like thought process, actions, problem solving, reading, mathematics and writing. These are major building blocks for not only school learning but life as well. Children will also grasp that concept that parts create a whole.
We've got "maturity" all wrong. And how are we ever supposed to teach someone about being mature if we can't properly understand it oureselves?
ModernSophist.com examines the connotation of the word maturity and notices a trend: most people define the word in terms of "not being immature." What, if any, is the effect of defining goal of self actualization in terms of its negative?
The author proposes re-defining the modern connotation in positive terms, terms which promote better understanding and contemplation, traits which further promote the effort.
There are many products out there for cats and dogs, and I do purchase them from time to time. However, it doesn’t matter how many cat toys I buy, the favorite has been and probably always will be the ring from the milk carton. The cats know the sound of breaking the seal on the milk carton; they all come running to see who can catch it first when I throw it in the air. They spend hours taking it from each other, playing hide and seek with it and killing it.
For the pets who have everything… how about the idea of a Trust Fund?
Americans own approimately 68 million dogs and 73 million cats, not everyone can leave trust funds, but most are likely concerned about what happens if they aren’t around anymore, and how they are cared for.
This month has been about making huge sweeping changes in my life...this dreamboard represents what I want, where I want to go, where I am going...even if I am only now catching a clue as to how I am going to get there. At least I am moving and progressing. At least I can say on some level I get it now.
My daughter shares her thoughts and feelings about my depression and suicide attempt. For me it was an eye opener about how MY mental health has affected her.
